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6. On Amphicheiral Forms and their Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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If a cord be knotted, any number of times, according to the pattern below

it is obviously perverted by simple inversion. Hence, when the free ends are joined it is an amphicheiral knot. Its simplest form is that of 4-fold knottiness. All its forms have knottiness expressible as 4n.

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Proceedings 1876-77
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 9 , 1878 , pp. 391 - 392
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1878

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